Feynman's Lost Lecture
  • Published: 20 June 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099736219
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99

Feynman's Lost Lecture

The Motions of Planets Around the Sun

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A fascinating and invaluable insight into the mind of brilliant physicist and Nobel Prize Winner, Richard Feynman, with illuminating commentary from David and Judith Goodstein.

On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's work has been reconstructed and explained in meticulous, accessible detail, together with a history of ideas of the planets' motions. The result is a vital and absorbing account of one of the fundamental puzzles of science, and an invaluable insight into Feynman's charismatic brilliance.
  • Published: 20 June 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099736219
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for Feynman's Lost Lecture

The Goodsteins have gone a long way towards making a tough piece of geometry accessible... The result is fascinating

John Gribbin, The Times

Feynman was singular in being both one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the century...[and] one of the most entertaining and illuminating teachers of science... Collectors of Feynman memorabilia, historians of science and all who enjoy watching a great mind at work will be thankful that the lost lecture has been found

Frank Close, Observer

Feynman was a brilliant thinker and one of the finest scientists ever

The Times